Thursday, 2 February 2012

January Photo-a-day Challenge

For fun this past month I joined a photo challenge created here by fatmumslim. For each day in January there was a specified topic for a photo, which you could interpret as literally or imaginatively as you like. The idea was to take a more or less spontaneous snap of whatever represents the topic for the day, play with edits or filters if you feel like it, and share it on some site.

All these were taken with my new, compact little Canon Ixus (see Day 31) that I got for Christmas and which lives inside my handbag (see Day 13!) ...

January 1. You

2. Breakfast

3. Something you Adore

4. Letterbox

5. Something you Wore

6. Makes you Smile

7.Favourite

8. Your Sky

9. Daily Routine

Snapped in the nano-second before the tube door closed. Sometimes the most spontaneous of all produce interesting results!

10. Childhood

11. Where you Sleep

12. Close-Up

13. In your Bag

14. Something you're Reading

15. Happiness

16. Morning

17. Water

Manky bit of the Thames made to look more interesting than it is with some nifty filters.

18. Something you Bought

Lunch on my desk at work

19. Sweet

20. Someone you Love

21.Reflection

Shot while driving in the rain. Don't try this at home, kids.

22. Your Shoes

23. Something Old

24. Guilty Pleasure

Tiny but wonderful French café round the corner from my workplace in north London, where I sometimes pop in for lunch or a coffee, happens to be called Le Péché Mignon (transl: guilty pleasure), and so it is indeed.

25. Something you Made

26. Colour

27. Lunch

28. Light

29. Inside your Fridge

Yikes! This was almost as hard as having to expose myself. You're getting both soft-focus and a Lomo-ish effect here.

30. Nature

31. You, Again

This was fun to do. I might do the February challenge - check it out here if you're interested in joining in.

Hi Carol, it's the 230. And yes ... while some pics are au naturel, with many of them I played with editing and effects, as this was part of the fun of the challenge. So a lot of this is down to Picnik rather than the Canon!

I like your commitment to this challenge Karen. 31+ photographs in one post - impressive! That would be just too much of a challenge for me as my machine can take an aching amount of time to load just one photograph.

Thanks, Frances. It was a fun project to do, though some days a bit stressful to find something on the topic. It's apparently ongoing through the year, so I might do it again in a quieter month. I still love my SLR camera, but this is so much easier to carry around, so I will definitely use it more.